Month: October 2004
Motorola's Bluetooth bonanza
Lots of new Bluetooth toys at the Motorola press conference the other day. These include a Motorola pendant headset (pictured) which lets you make/take calls on your Bluetooth mobile without looking like a tosser with a huge growth on your…
iRiver drops prices (and accessories)
And the award for most pretentious press release of the month goes to iRiver. The company could have just told us that it's dropped the prices of its H320 20Gig pocket jukebox by 50 quid by ditching a load of…
Where next for the iPod?
Today's Guardian has a brief piece about how, for the first time, the Apple iPod seems to be falling behind its rivals in terms of size, performance and features. It cites the Archos Gmini XS200 and Creative mîcro as being…
Pentax swings its pants
Although we are utterly devoted to new technology we have always harboured something of a secret crush on those 60s style 8mm cine cameras with their fantastic pistol style grips. We can just imagine ourselves now using one to capture…
Dell's new PDAs hit Europe
While Dell has been very busy Stateside launching all kinds of iPod rivals and consumer electronics goodies it has been a little more lethargic in Europe. We are however at least seeing some new product including a trio of new…
The end of annoying voice mails
Don't you just hate it when your mobile phone is clogged up with wingeing old voice mails from your boss, partner, gym instructor, plastic surgeon etc? And how annoying is it when someone leaves a message with a number and…
Cigarette lighter snapper
We don't know a huge deal about Kyocera, largely because it hasn't bothered too much with the UK market, however we like the look of this. The Contax i4R is a tiny cigarette lighter style camera. The cool bits are…
Apple's bargain basement laptop
Fairly busy day for Apple yesterday with a slew of announcements including a 1.8 GHz single processor Power Mac® G5 desktop and its most affordable iBook G4 so far. You can read more here and here. Now we are probably…
3's video dating stunt
Looking for lurve? Then get yerself down to Selfridges in London to leave your own video dating message. Mobile phone company 3 may be making most of its money out of cheap voice calls at the moment (see 3G story…
Sky's designer boxes
As if Sky's Sky+ box isn't appealing enough (record any programme for the next week you want into the box's hard drive just by pressing a button), Sky has teamed up with a load of UK fashion designers to…